Oh yeah, also lots of talks

Most of those are not as 'intellectually stimulating' let's say but it might be interesting to have something there

Unless you are specifically looking for social media skills, it can be a mistake to hire engineers based on social media presence. People who are good at self-promotion often play poorly in teams. Just sayin'...

10k+ karma on HN (or a high klout score) = 0 productivity ;)

This might be very true for startups, unfortunately, but it's not true for Amazon/Google/Facebook and so on

my impression has been that node.js reached the top of its hip curve a few years ago, same with golang. not that they're disused, they're just not obsessive-compulsive topics. this is mostly based on what i (don't) see and hear at work and here.

again, based on what i see on hn, github is actually falling out of favor (we'll see if they can reverse the trend [sic] with the newly released features; the search removal inspires little confidence).

twitter has been around for too long to be trending upwards, it's like facebook. the populace split into users and abstinents has ossified. it's even more pronounced with linkedin which has been around much longer.

i have no idea what's supposed to be trending in programming instead though. recently it's felt to me like a plateau of sorts.